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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with make buildworld with existing terminfo database
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dan Hulme wrote:

> I happen to have a terminfo database installed in
> [/usr/share/misc/terminfo].  It really is just a symlink to
> [/usr/compat/linux/usr/share/terminfo].  Therefore, my build failed, and
> didn't give me any helpful information when it did so.  After tracking
> down the culprit scripts, I still didn't know what was wrong, because I
> didn't understand how ncurses deals with terminfo/termcap. Now that I
> understand it, I think that something should be changed to deal with
> this possibility.

Did you put this there yourself? Why not just move it in to
/usr/compat/linux, if linux is the only thing using terminfo?  Linux apps
will still find it by the /compat/linux redirection and it stays safely
hidden from everything else.

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